St. Cloud man charged in rape of young girl

A St. Cloud man is charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, accused of raping a young girl.

Tetyang Puok Juate-Yout, 45, made his first court appearance Friday in Stearns County District Court. Judge John Scherer ordered Juate-Yout held in lieu of $600,000 unconditional bail and $200,000 bail with conditions.

A court complaint indicates that the girl told a relative about the abuse, saying it had happened in 2006, stopped when Juate-Yout moved away and started again in 2013, when he returned to St. Cloud.

The victim told a nurse that the assaults had happened at a residence in south St. Cloud and that she was having bowel problems that she thought were from the sexual assaults.

The victim told the nurse that Juate-Yout had told her not to tell anyone else about the abuse.

Investigators tried to speak with Juate-Yout, and provided an interpreter for an interview, but Juate-Yout declined to speak to the investigator.

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